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It has long been said PC gaming is dead, mostly meaning the consoles like the Xbox and Playstation have taken the fight out of the PC gaming industry. This is true in part to most PC games being made today as ports of games designed to consoles. They are "Xbox Clones" - games that are scaled down in graphics and use engines that do not allow the customizations Windows PC gaming users have come to rely on.
Some game developers like Bethesda manage to pull this off well with their titles like Oblivion, Skyrim and the Fallout series but sadly, most other devs get it wrong. There are very few games being developed today for the PC with the features we want.
Microsoft has it's Games for Windows Live division - which ironically does not publish games developed for PC, but rather it's XBox ports to PC.
Now both Steam and GOG (Good Old Games) have announced support for Linux and are introducing lots of re-worked Windows PC games to work in Linux. GOG will start releasing the Linux versions this fall.
However, you can get lists of current GOG games that do already work natively in Linux. Here, let me Google that for you. Let me google that for you
Together these two gaming giants along with Linux's new gaming development platform Leadworks and the popular Unity 3D's gaming development platform now with Linux support - can be the catalyst that marks the beginning of the end for Windows PC gaming.
Developers like Microsoft need to decide if they want Windows gaming to survive. If they do, they need to change and give PC gamers the games with the features gamers want running on engines that are flexable enough for user configuration. Linux gaming is about to have a huge growth spurt and making games for consoles will not combat that.
If the market doesn't change, Linux will win and that will be a Glorious day for many of us. Linux can do everything Windows can do sometimes easier and faster as in OpenGL vs the slower DirectX for example. Gaming is one thing holding millions of Windows users from switching to Linux. Companies like Microsoft have to be aware of this and adjust accordingly.
Some game developers like Bethesda manage to pull this off well with their titles like Oblivion, Skyrim and the Fallout series but sadly, most other devs get it wrong. There are very few games being developed today for the PC with the features we want.
Microsoft has it's Games for Windows Live division - which ironically does not publish games developed for PC, but rather it's XBox ports to PC.
Now both Steam and GOG (Good Old Games) have announced support for Linux and are introducing lots of re-worked Windows PC games to work in Linux. GOG will start releasing the Linux versions this fall.
However, you can get lists of current GOG games that do already work natively in Linux. Here, let me Google that for you. Let me google that for you
Together these two gaming giants along with Linux's new gaming development platform Leadworks and the popular Unity 3D's gaming development platform now with Linux support - can be the catalyst that marks the beginning of the end for Windows PC gaming.
Developers like Microsoft need to decide if they want Windows gaming to survive. If they do, they need to change and give PC gamers the games with the features gamers want running on engines that are flexable enough for user configuration. Linux gaming is about to have a huge growth spurt and making games for consoles will not combat that.
If the market doesn't change, Linux will win and that will be a Glorious day for many of us. Linux can do everything Windows can do sometimes easier and faster as in OpenGL vs the slower DirectX for example. Gaming is one thing holding millions of Windows users from switching to Linux. Companies like Microsoft have to be aware of this and adjust accordingly.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 64 bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavillion G7-2251dx
- CPU
- AMD A-8 4500M
- Memory
- 8 Gigabytes DDR3 sdram
- Graphics Card(s)
- Discrete ATI Radeon HD 7640G with 2 Gigs
- Sound Card
- IDT Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 17.3
- Screen Resolution
- 1600x900
- Hard Drives
- 500 gig
- Internet Speed
- 3.5 mb/sec